GERMAN DESIGNS IN EAST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17139, 19 April 1919, Page 9

GERMAN DESIGNS IN EAST.

FEARS OF CZECHOSLOVAKS.

INCREASED ARMY AND ARMS.

MANY RECRUITS GAINED.

Australian »nd N.Z. Cable Association. (Heed. 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, April 17.

A Czecho-Slovak delegation from Eastern Germany declares that the Germans are secretly organising a powerful army in the eastern provinces. They have concealed large quantities of arms and artillery under the control of the pan-German Leagues. Numerous recruiting stations have been established between the .Baltic and the Czech frontier. Officers are accosting all travellers of military ago, who mostly yield to pressure, being largely influenced by the pay of six shillings a day and food. The daily average of recruits is 25,000. The delegation states that the Junkers are placing their wealth at the disposal of the new army, and granting the granaries of the seijjnioral domains for barracks. Numerous factories continue to produce shells, machine-guns, and cannon. The Government has also handed over to the new army long trains of waggons, which were hidden in the woods. Batteries of artillery are also hidden all over the country. The Government, which protests it is unable to feed the urban centres, .is transporting thousands of shells from nine factories, all erected since the armistice was signed. The whole movement is being conducted in Hindenburg's name. POLES GAIN ADVANTAGE. INCREASED VOTING POWER. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, April 17. Advices from Germany in connection with the municipal elections at Posen state that where Poles were previously in the minority they now possess, under universal suffrage, a sweeping majority, and many towns under German burgomasters have passed into Polish hands. Similar rem! are expected in Eastern Prussia and Silesia. Typhus is exacting a terrible toll throughout Poland. Ten thousand deaths are occurring weekly. UKRAINIANS AGGRESSIVE. LEMBERG BOMBARDED. (Received 5.5 p.m.) Itenter. LEMBERG. April 17. The Ukrainians heavily bombarded the town on Thursday and Friday. Many people were killed or wounded. OFFER MADE TO POLAND-

EQUIVALENTS FOR DANZIG,

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Heed. 8.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, April IT.

I The Paris correspondent of the ' New York Herald states that before M. Paderewski arrived in Paris the German Government _ offered _to recognise Poland's national aspirations, to guarantee Poland the use, of Danzig, and to recognise Poland J claims to Teschen and East Galicia. j They promised to help Poland to ( re-establish her industries if Poland i in return accepted German owner- J ship of Danzig and agreed that the Lithuanian corridor to Russia should be open for German use.